FOX4: FAME: Walnut "Meat" Tacos

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Food as Medicine Everyday (FAME) is a 10-week program offering nutrition education classes on a variety of topics to help improve diet and lifestyle. You’ll learn simple techniques to cook tasty, nutritious meals. Saint Luke’s Muriel I. Kauffman Women’s Heart Center is a founding member of the Food as Medicine Institute Alliance.

Grace Hoffman, Nutritional Coordinator with Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and the Food As Medicine Everyday (FAME) program, shares a healthy meat-free taco recipe with the FOX4 morning show.

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups raw shelled walnuts
  • 2 cups roughly chopped white button mushrooms
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 ½ tsp chili powder
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 ½ tbsp low sodium soy sauce or coconut aminos
  • 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
  • 2 tbsp olive oil, for cooking

For serving

  • 6-inch corn tortillas
  • Lettuce
  • Salsa
  • Guacamole
  • Black or pinto beans

Directions

  1. Combine walnuts, mushrooms, cumin, chili powder, garlic, soy sauce and lime juice in a food processor. Pulse to break up walnuts and mushrooms into small crumbles.
  2. Heat olive oil over medium-low heat in a skillet. Add walnut mixture and cook, stirring occasionally for 7-8 minutes, until mushrooms are tender.
  3. Serve on tortilla with desired toppings. Enjoy!